RE: [WSG] thoughts of external links in new window?

2004-10-05 Thread Greer, Ben
We currently use popup windows to provide an answer/feedback for an activity/questionnaire. At one stage we were using hidden divs and JS to "unhide" the div when the user hit a submit button, but from a usability standpoint that was bad as it reset the page to the top (and so a screenreader would

RE: [WSG] thoughts of external links in new window?

2004-10-05 Thread Greer, Ben
We currently use popup windows to provide an answer/feedback for an activity/questionnaire. At one stage we were using hidden divs and JS to "unhide" the div when the user hit a submit button, but from a usability standpoint that was bad as it reset the page to the top (and so a screenreader would

RE: [WSG] gBrowser from Google

2004-09-28 Thread Greer, Ben
There's also the rumour of the "google browser bug" that was in Bugzilla (but then was made private and no longer appears): http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/google_browser.html > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Jason Turnbull > Se

RE: [WSG] Embedding Flash

2004-09-23 Thread Greer, Ben
This thread has been a bit of deja vu for me. I have been discussing this problem with an external developer who uses Satay, who doesn't seem to believe that it is flaky. He has tested it across many browsers/OS's and hasn't seen the problem, and therefore had difficulty believing there is a prob.

RE: [WSG] Embedding Flash

2004-09-21 Thread Greer, Ben
Actually its worse than that - I didn't see this myself, but heard second hand that on a machine where it didn't work they re-installed Flash, and it started working fine. Some time later (after a reboot as far as I know), the page started failing again. So not only not non-reproducable across syst

RE: [WSG] Embedding Flash

2004-09-20 Thread Greer, Ben
Forgot to mention, I have seen it fail with the empty text box on IE6 as well (not on the page mentioned below, but on our testing of Satay). Ben. > I used the "Satay" method on this page which validates to > XHTML Strict. Works in IE, FireFox, Netscape 7.2, Opera 7.x > on Win - not sure about o

RE: [WSG] Embedding Flash

2004-09-20 Thread Greer, Ben
Hi Johan, That page fails (displays an empty text box) on Win98SE, IE5.5, Flash 7,0,1,9,0. The big problem with Satay that I found is that on one machine it will work fine, then on another with the exact same OS, IE and Flash versions it fails with the empty text box problem. See the comments in th

RE: [WSG] Embedding Flash

2004-09-20 Thread Greer, Ben
As you said, both validating methods have issues, and AFAIK there is not a more reliable method that is valid. I have recently been testing Satay, and I have seen it fail on various setups, and have given up on it. As David said, I think the answer to your question is "no". > Can anyone recommend

RE: [WSG] Testing render speed

2004-09-19 Thread Greer, Ben
Try http://www.xat.com/wo/index.html We've been using it and find it very helpful. I think you could set it to "unlimited" speed to get just render times... > I want to test the render speed (from initial request through to > completion, and just the render once all files are cached) of some > p